From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:07:27 +0100
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       "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Saturday 16 February 2008 11:27:33 Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Feb 16, 2008 12:18 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > People, who do cleanups - I'm not talking about running lindent here -
> > read through the code while they fix it up.
> >
> > Actually they find bugs that way or at least come up with useful
> > questions about code which is not obvious in the first place.
> >
> > Discouraging such cleanups with a pretty offensive warning is
> > counterproductive.
> 
> Well, it's not just about cleanup patches submitted by "newbies". I
> use checkpatch for development too and the warning is real PITA for
> that.

Just use --file-force then. That will shut it up.

-Andi
 

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